CHEX-DT

CHEX-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CHEX-DT's studios are located on Monaghan Road (near Rose Avenue) in the southern portion of Peterborough, and its transmitter is located on Television Hill, just outside Peterborough.

CHEX-DT
Peterborough, Ontario
Canada
ChannelsDigital: 12 (VHF)
Virtual: 12 (PSIP)
BrandingGlobal Peterborough (general)
CHEX News on Global Peterborough (newscasts)
Programming
AffiliationsGlobal (O&O; 2018–present)
Ownership
OwnerCorus Entertainment
(591987 B.C. Ltd.[1])
Sister stationsCKRU-FM, CKWF-FM
History
First air dateMarch 25, 1955 (1955-03-25)
Former call signsCHEX-TV (1955–2013)
Former channel number(s)Analogue: 12 (VHF, 1955–2013)
Former affiliationsCBC Television (1955–2015)
CTV (2015–2018)
Call sign meaningCH Peterborough EXaminer (former owner, local newspaper)
Technical information
Licensing authorityCRTC
ERP20 kW
HAAT316.5 m (1,038 ft)
Transmitter coordinates44°19′42″N 78°17′58″W
Translator(s)4 CHEX-TV-1 Bancroft
Links
WebsiteGlobal Peterborough

On cable, the station is available on Cogeco digital channel 702 in high definition in the Peterborough area.[2] On satellite, it is carried on Shaw Direct channel 142,[3] and Bell Satellite TV channel 217.[4]

History

The station signed on the air on March 26, 1955 as an independently-owned affiliate of CBC Television; its inaugural broadcast was a National Hockey League ice hockey game. CHEX was founded by a media partnership that already published the Peterborough Examiner newspaper and owned radio station CHEX (now CKRU). The partnership included politician Rupert Davies, who was also involved in a similar arrangement in Kingston that established CKWS-TV. The Davies family sold its media interests to Power Corporation of Canada in 1976. On April 13, 2000, the station was acquired by Canadian media conglomerate Corus Entertainment.

Previous logo used from 2013 to 2016. An earlier variant of the logo featured cyan and green bars instead of red.

On May 20, 2015, Corus and Bell Media announced an agreement whereby its three CBC stations would leave the public network (after 60 years in the case of CHEX) and "affiliate" with CTV. The affiliation switch took effect on August 31, 2015.[5][6] Most TV service providers serving the region already carry CBLT, and any that do not will have to add a CBC affiliate such as CBLT to their basic services in order to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations.[7]

Former logo used from October 2016 to August 2018.

Legally, the affiliation with CTV was described as a "program supply agreement", and not as an "affiliation" (a term with specific legal implications under CRTC rules), as Corus maintained editorial control over the stations' programming and the ability to sell local advertising, and did not delegate responsibility for CTV programs aired by the station to Bell Media.[8] The switch was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on August 27, 2015, when it dismissed objections by Rogers Media (who argued that the change was an "affiliation" and thus required CRTC consent to implement, and was not in the public interest because it created duplicate sources of CTV programming), and by a resident who complained that as he only received television over the air, he would lose his ability to receive CBC Television as a result of the disaffiliation.[9] Following the expiration of CHEX's three-year deal with CTV, the station became a Global owned-and-operated station (O&O) and rebranded itself as Global Peterborough on August 27, 2018; the CHEX branding will be retained for the station's newscasts.[10]

News operation

Local newscasts, branded as CHEX News, air weekdays from 6-9 a.m., at 12:00 p.m., weeknights at 5:00, 5:30, 6:00 & 11:00 p.m., and weekends at 6:00 p.m.. On October 24, 2016, CHEX premiered a morning newscast known as The Morning Show (now known as Global News Morning. On September 6, 2016, the station began carrying Global National.[11][12] The following day, CHEX moved its late night newscast to 11:00 pm, replacing CTV National News. The vacant timeslot at 11:30 pm was replaced by ET Canada.[13] As a result, CHEX did not carry any of CTV's news shows during its 3-year link with the network, including the aforementioned National News and the national morning show Your Morning, as both shows can be seen on a Peterborough transmitter of Toronto's flagship station CFTO-DT, CTV News Channel, and on both the CTV and CTV News websites.

Digital television and high definition

As of September 2011, CHEX-TV had not yet begun broadcasting in digital. The CRTC has not listed Peterborough as one of its mandatory markets for analogue television shutdown and digital conversion,[14] and therefore CHEX-TV was not required to convert to digital transmissions on the transition date of August 31, 2011.[15]

CHEX-TV began offering a high definition feed on Cogeco Cable in the Peterborough area in November 2010. Over-the-air digital broadcasts were tentatively planned to commence on May 9, 2013, but the station was delayed a few days in converting to digital operations.[16]

CHEX made the switch from analog to digital on May 9, 2013.[17]

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References
  1. Ownership Chart 32D - CORUS - Radio & TV
  2. Cogeco TV Guide
  3. "National Channel Lineup (Numerical)" (PDF). Shawdirect.ca. Shaw Satellite G.P. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  4. "List of Bell Satellite TV Channels". TV Channel Lists. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
  5. Corus Entertainment (2015-05-20). "Corus Entertainment's Eastern Ontario Television Channels Enter into a Program Supply Agreement with Bell Media to Broadcast CTV Programming". Retrieved 2015-05-20.
  6. Broadcasting Decision 2015-403
  7. "Broadcast Distribution Regulations (ss. 17(d) and 17(f))". Justice Laws Website. Department of Justice (Canada). 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2014-07-12.
  8. "Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2015-403". CRTC. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  9. "CBC drops local TV affiliates in Oshawa, Peterborough and Kingston". Toronto Star. August 28, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  10. Kovach, Joelle (August 14, 2018). "CHEX-TV newscasts rebranding as CHEX News on Global Peterborough". The Peterborough Examiner. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  11. Faguy, Steve. "Global expands network after CBC abandons affiliates". Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  12. "'Global National,' 'The Morning Show' expanding into new areas". Global News. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  13. "Your late news just got earlier! Join @JayeMakinson @MeaghanDRoy & @Mike_Judson for CHEX News at 11pm, beginning tonight on @chextv". Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  14. Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2010-167
  15. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2012-03-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  17. "CHEX-TV making switch to digital transmission from analog on May 9". Peterborough Examiner. April 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
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